Improvement in cigar-wrapping machines



` 2 SheetsSheet 2. G. W. TNER & P. D. BLISS.

CIGAR WRAPPING MACHINE. I

No. 105,140. Patented July 5, 18 Eff diritti geratenatrat dtjijirr.

GEORGE W. TANER ANDv FRANK D. BLISS, OF PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND.

Letters Patent No. 105,140,.dated July 5, 1870.

miv- IMPROVEMENT IN CIGAR-WRAPPING MACHINES.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making peut of the saine *awr- To all whom it may concern:

'Be it known .that we, GEORGE W. TANNER and FRANK D. BLrss, of the city and county of Providence and State of Rhode' Island, have invented a certain new and useful Cigar-wrapping Machine.

Our invention consists in certain novel combinations of rollers and gearing, and also in the construction and arrangement ofthe same; and we do hereby declare that the following specification, taken in connection with the drawing furnished and forming a part of the same, is a clear, true, and exact description thereof.

Reference being had to the drawingl Figure 1 represents, in perspective, one of our mac unes.

Figure 2 represents the same in longitudinal vertical section. t- Figure 3 represents the same in cross-vertical-secion.

.Figure 4 represents the upper portion of the machine detached therefrom.

The same letters of reference are used in all the figures'.

A is the bed of' the machine, which should hc se cured to a bench or table.

O, in each case, represents G-shaped standards.

B represents a shaft-block.

D is the operative shaft,`to the outer end of which crank or other power is to be applied.

E, in each case, represents one ofV three metallic bed-rollers.

the third, in such a manner that a line of a circle drawn from a common center equidistant from each would engage-with their several peripheries.

F, in each case, represents astationary horn-shaped finger. Its inner or large end is of' the same diameter as the rollers, and the outer end is pointed. There is one or these fingers for each of the rolls E. The

The rollers Eare set in collar-blocks, I, at each end.-

Each of these is .mounted upon a spring-stem, K, which passes through a pair of stationary longitudinal bll'S L. A

The said stems-are embraced by spiral springs, so set that they bear with expansive force between the They are so mounted that their centers are parallel with each other, and two are placed above ner side of the outer bars L and a pin in the stems The pressing-rollers G are mounted, side by, side, in

double collars, M, placed at each end. These collars are, like the others described, mounted upon springl stems. Instead'of the stationary longitudinal bars L, however, these rollers G, collars M, and-their springstems, are mounted in a vertically-adjustable frame, N, fitted to grooves out in the inner faces of the stand-A The frame N is secured, at its topand center, to a rod, O, which extends longitudinally to a point at the rear of the bed-plate, then, turning at a right angle, passes downward through the bench or table on which the machine is placed.

The rod O is embraced by a circular spiral spring,

- so set thatits expansive force sustains the weight ot' the frame N and rollers G.

To this rod I purpose attaching a treadle, or equivalent device, for readily depressing the same.

Upon the operative end of the shaft D there is a long toot-hed gear, a.

Each of the bed-rollers E has attached to its end a gear, b, which meshes with gear a.

The pressing-rollers G are provided with gears c, which mesh with each other.

The geared end of' the shaft D contains a splined spindle, P, capable of independent longitudinal movement only by means of the circular knob Q.

The outer end of the spindle is secured to a bladed fork, T, the whole so arranged that, as the shaft re wolves, the spindle and fork revolve with it.

It is our purpose to have the fork-tines, in practice,

4so set. as lto he capable of complete withdrawal into the end of the shaft D.

The operation of our' machine is as follows;

A. cigar ready for the wrapper is placed into the recess formed by the bed-rollers E. The fork T is then forced into the large end of the cigar. By means of a treadle, or its equivalent, the' pressing-rollers G' are brought down so that each of their gears c-will mesh witlrthe driving-gear a, while with the right hand the leaf is' .held with proper tension upon the smoothingplate R, and inclined to the right. 'lfheleft hand may then operate' the machine by turning the main shaft, which will cause all the rollers to revolve together in an opposite direction to that in which the main shaft, with the cigar, is being revolved. Meantime, the right hand should feed in the wrapper to the fire end of the cigar, and maintain the proper incline toward the right of the machine. YVhen the small end ofthe cgaris reached by the wrapper, the stationary curved fingers F and H perform a similar service in pointing, Athe end of the 'cigar to that performed by the fingers of the hand after the old method.

Having thus described our invention,

We claim as new and desireV to secure by Letters Patentl. The bed-rollers E, provided with stationary Vhorndescribed.

GEORGE W. TANNEB.

' F. D. BLISS. Witnesses:

HENRY MARTIN, JOHN O.' Poems. 

